“It’s real simple, girls hockey is back and [the district will] fund it for the first year and then it’s up to us to come up with the money for the following couple years,” Carlos Gomez, the president of the Scotty Gomez Foundation, said, explaining the agreement his organization reached with the district.

“When something big gets taken away from you, boy you come back fighting mad as hell, and that’s where I think the program is gonna go right now,” Gomez said. “I don’t see [any] problem justifying girls’ high school hockey from here on.”

It will also be up to the Gomez Association to promote and recruit for the program, but after this year’s summer-long battle to revive girls’ hockey, Gomez doesn’t think it should be much of an issue.